sheep in the city

Weekend fun!

I played hookie from work on Friday and headed to the Denver Zoo with my sister and her kids. It was the perfect day to be outside. I think it was somewhere in the mid to high 70's. Everyone else must have had the same idea because the zoo was super crowded. We had fun despite the crowd though. Check out how big my nephew is getting. (click here for the sleepy picture of him riding back to the car!)

Sunday I was able to indulge in a favorite hobby of mine, beading! My friend Mary Kay had expressed an interest in getting together to make jewelry at our knit group on friday night, so she spent the afternoon with me on Sunday. In high school I used to spend hours working on beaded necklaces and earrings. Then I was able to incorporate my love of beads into my knitting in the form of stitchmarkers. Well, a few months ago, I attended a gem and bead tradeshow with Tiffany. Let me say that the old passion for making jewelry came back. I picked up tons of different stones, mostly coral and turquoise. Pictured below is the first necklace that I made, and I love it!

I also made some great progress on my Seraphim shawl. If some of you remember, I was knitting on this shawl back in October. Well, since I didn't get it done in time for Rhinebeck I sort of lost all motivation to work on it. It has been languishing in the "Work-In-Progress" pile ever since. The funny thing is...I did 2 things that I tell new knitters all the time not to do. First, I stopped mid row. On a lace chart. Big mistake. Always, always finish the row that you are working on. Second, I didn't mark where I was on said lace chart. What was I thinking?! Apparently I wasn't. Once I finally figured out where I was things just took off. I'm now only 6 rows away from the bind off. Hopefully this will be completed in the next few days.

In my Dad's health news...he and my Mom spent the past 6 days down at MD Anderson in Houston. He started a chemotherapy/clinical trial regiment and so far, so good. We'll find out in the days to come how his body is reacting to the chemo. Read all about it, if you want to, over on his health blog. It's kind of funny...in his latest post, he calls me the "knitting queen". Not so sure that I've reached that level of distinction yet, but it's the thought that counts!

Posted by Stacey at April 23, 2007 02:48 PM